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WhazUp

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  1. I genuinely think Slash's solo is perfectly fine on this and so far have actually found the hate for it fairly hyperbolic on here tbh lol just as I have a lot of comments about him post-reunion live
  2. I have the ProAudioMasters high resolution file and don't hear any clipping on that, my meter rates it as a DR9 which is not terrible for rock music nowadays
  3. Perhaps, being a piano driven song, possibly Axl thought that there were already enough tunes on there that were piano driven? Prostitute, Street of Dreams, Cather, and This I Love all being very present on the album Edit: Caught_in_a_Coma above me beat me to it lol so my sentiments are not new but I echo theirs
  4. Honestly this is like my biggest GNR fan thing that can irrationally make me super annoyed lol the tendency to like take obvious non-facts as fact. Like whether it is those lyrics, or fans thinking The General is a later version of State of Grace, or how the tiny soundcheck clip from months back is considered to be Oklahoma with no doubt, etc. Or thinking random Village Session demo titles are connected to other song titles Axl listed in the 2008 chats Making shit up and that shit being repeated by people here just means total confusion in GNR fandom lmao
  5. I just think there is not enough audio information to either call it the best epic ever, or not a highlight track lol at least to me personally - I know my ears haven't heard enough to say either way. That said, thankfully in a short while we won't have to worry about relying on 2010 cell phone audio or recreations
  6. I feel a lot better about it hearing the final mix in lossess, it blends way more than the bar phone recordings made me initially think. I think it sounds fine now personally
  7. His mix, although well done, is only an approximation of a barely audible cell phone clip so the quality of the tune as of yet is one I think may be too early to determine It could very easily just be a vinyl B-side for a way to hype up and keep the excitment of yet another GNR song release going for a couple months, and then they release The General as a standalone single on streaming services - not neccesarily because the quality of composition is not up to par in their eyes
  8. Can't wait to hear Perhaps in October! Had a feeling they would play it live right when the song officially came out
  9. I imagine there were contracts in place to where all the material they used in regards to GNR could still be used by GNR even after they left - so I bet at the very least it isn't a suprise for them that since the reunion that would be the case As to their feelings, I can easily imagine Ron not caring, Buckethead not even being aware GNR are releasing things because he is too busy recording 10 more albums, and Tommy being cool about it lol
  10. If rumors are "GNR fans making up random stuff out of thin air trying to connect leaks with other working title names with no evidence" and other GNR fans read it and think it is actual info and pass it on as such, then yes
  11. Sounds much cooler than "written by Axl in 1998 and Slash and Duff writing more to it in 2021-2023"
  12. So far this year we have gotten: - Decent setlist shakeups with PTU, Anything Goes, and Bad Obsession in the mix - Perhaps - Perhaps music video - The General (soon to come) GNR have really stepped up their game in 2023 and kudos to them for doing so, I think moments like this go a long way when it comes to us hardcore GNR fanatics
  13. If you told me in 2013 that we would eventually get the official release of the 16 second mysterious clip that was "Checkmate" as well as "The General", both with Slash and Duff on them, I would have said "fuck off Ashton Kutcher I don't give you permission to use my likeness on Punk'd"
  14. Perhaps has been out in the US offically for 20 minutes as I type this and we already have forgotten all about it because of The General
  15. It would be hillarious if you flip the Perhaps single to side B and its just a bonus audio of the cellphone recording from the Vienna afterparty
  16. Sweet fancy Moses, that just came out of nowhere! Okay I was a "The General" healthy skeptic even with the setlist pics I am now officially f'n hyped
  17. I just find it hillarious they released Silkworms 2 years before a song that actually can pass for a piano driven UYI type of tune lol
  18. Especially when they are not using big Geffen money for promotion to help people be aware of their new single lol
  19. Not trolling or being contrarian, I just genuinely think Slash's solo is fine I respect all opinions including those who prefer Robin's take on it, I see no reason to argue with anyone about our own ears' preferences in that sense - even though I do maintain that some comments about Slash's playing in general post-2016 can get a bit hyperbolic
  20. Hearing a low bitrate rip of the initial radio broadcast again, of course it is hard to judge but even now I am thinking this may be the strongest re-working so far among the 3 released singles. I do think this sounds like Village Session-era Axl to me still, maybe from a different vocal take we hadn't heard from that time or they comped a vocal track using slightly different edits but the same overall track
  21. https://streamable.com/nwqqt0 Here is my own quick pass at Slash's solo here
  22. I like Slash's version much more personally. I never thought there was anything that noteworthy about Robin's version let alone anything epic about it lol what specifically about Robin's solo do you like? Any particular melodic motifs or note choices that catch your ear?
  23. Although I did notice on WYWH and the few songs after how low the bitrate was, which in itself can cramp up any mix with the degradation of the frequency availability
  24. The bitrate wasn't great and internet radio jacks up the compression - I noticed the same audio issues with all the music leading up to it too. Unfortunately internet radio has yet to adopt losslees audio with no post-processing on it
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